(THE BEATLES-Help) -[NEAR MINT+]-Orange label-A5-LP

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DESCRIPTION ITEM: 12" VINYL LP 33 1/3RPM
ARTIST: THE BEATLES
TITLE: Help!
COUNTRY: OZ
CAT No: See scan
COVER: (Grade at MINT-)
LABELS: (Grade at MINT-)
VINYL: (Grade at NEAR MINT+)
TRACKS:
1. Help!
2. The Night Before
3. You've Got To Hide Your Love Away
4. I Need You
5. Another Girl
6. You're Going To Lose That Girl
7. Ticket To Ride
8. Act Naturally
9. It's Only Love
10. You Like Me Too Much
11. Tell Me What You See
12. I've Just Seen A Face
13. Yesterday
14. Dizzy Miss Lizzy
PERSONNEL: According to Mark Lewisohn and Alan W. Pollack.
John Lennon – lead, harmony and backing vocals; rhythm, acoustic and 12 string guitars; electric piano and Hammond organ; percussion
Paul McCartney – lead, harmony and backing vocals; lead, acoustic and bass guitars; electric and acoustic piano; guiro
George Harrison – lead, harmony and backing vocals; lead, rhythm, acoustic and 12 string guitars; percussion
Ringo Starr – drums and percussion; lead vocals on "Act Naturally"

Additional musicians
George Martin – piano and producer
John Scott – flutes on "You've Got to Hide Your Love Away"
String quartet on "Yesterday", arranged by Martin in association with McCartney
REVIEW #1: By crandynewman
After the rip roaring success of Hard Day's Night, some peoples' personal favorite Beatles' record, the quartet decided they had to top it with the ultimate pop album, and they did! Help! is one of the best albums in the entire collection of the Beatles' discography and it does so with great songs, a fun structure, and even a movie to promote it! The gang Paul, Paul Ringo, and George were running on all cylinders when they made this one and it is one of the last albums before their big forey into folk and eventually psycho rock.

Like a Hard Day's Night, this album starts out with Help!, the title track from the album. It is one of the best songs that the band ever wrote, and certainly one of the most recognizable as it's been in countless movies (like Cheaper By the Dozen most recently). After that comes (Hey) You've Got to Hide Your Love Away, another one of the great Beatles waltzes. It shows a slightly folkish influence that would be later explored in the next album, entitled Rubber Soul, a lot of peoples' personal favorite album by the Beatles. One thing I don't like is that Another Girl and You're Going to Lose that Girl are right next to each other in the tracklist so it makes it difficult to differentiate the two between each other.

After that comes the great Ticket to Ride which I'm sure everyone in the world has heard before. Then Act Naturally is a funny Ringo song which are always the pleasure. Before the hit ballad (and most covered song of all time Yesterday) we get one of my personal favorite Beatles' songs, I've Just Seen a Face. It has such a nice flow and pretty sound it's greatly hard to resist most of the time. Overall this is one of the best Beatles' albums barnone, and definitely the best out of the Beatles poppy phase before delving into darker more sinister and drug induced rock. But for now the Beatle's don't need any Help! at all.
REVIEW #2: By Neil McCormick
Help! sounds like a band in transition, shifting slightly uncomfortably from the pop thrills of Beatlemania to something more mature.

The title track is another raw, Lennon confessional, although its dark tone is partly disguised by the sheer energy of the performance. The songs are starting to be both their lifestyles and inner lives: women, affairs, the paranoia of fame. Lennon’s private disquiet is even more apparent on his folky, Bob Dylan-influenced You’ve Got to Hide Your Love Away. This was a departure for the Beatles, with its driven acoustics, whiplash chorus and even a flute solo.

Their sonic range is expanding as they start to get comfortable in the studio, Harrison riding a volume pedal on his pleading I Need You and in the drone of riffing, proto-heavy-rock song Ticket to Ride driven by Ringo’s heavy tom tom beat. And then there’s McCartney’s timeless ballad of regret, Yesterday, tenderly framed by acoustic guitar and string quartet.

Help! … contains some of their greatest early songs.
COMMENT: Biography by Richie Unterberger

So much has been said and written about the Beatles — and their story is so mythic in its sweep — that it's difficult to summarize their career without restating clichés that have already been digested by tens of millions of rock fans. To start with the obvious, they were the greatest and most influential act of the rock era, and introduced more innovations into popular music than any other rock band of the 20th century. Moreover, they were among the few artists of any discipline that were simultaneously the best at what they did and the most popular at what they did. Relentlessly imaginative and experimental, the Beatles grabbed a hold of the international mass consciousness in 1964 and never let go for the next six years, always staying ahead of the pack in terms of creativity but never losing their ability to communicate their increasingly sophisticated ideas to a mass audience. Their supremacy as rock icons remains unchallenged to this day, decades after their breakup in 1970.

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COVER: Barely noticeable surface mark/ wear.
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COVER: Noticeable wear on cover, seam or spine.
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COVER: Major tears, wearing, splits & stains.
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COVER: Very badly damaged.
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